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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "prepared to give you 30% " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "evans ofori" <mr.evansofori4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: evansofori2@sify.com
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:48:58 +0100
Subject: OF MUTUAL INTEREST.


The Trust Bank Ltd.
Reinsurance House
68 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue
P.O.Box 1862,
Accra–Ghana,West Africa.

My Dear ,

I am Evans Ofori,working with the above named bank.It is a pleasure to
communicate with you. I am the (GM, Operation & Systems) with The trust bank
ltd. A reputable commercial bank here in Accra Ghana west Africa. I hope you
are not surprised either to receive my proposal since we do not know each
other personally.Probably you may have received a proposal of this sort
before or may be you have not, whatever i want you to know that i am a man
of peace with my lovely family and i am contacting you in this transaction
for the benefit of the two of us.

It may interest you to know that i have packaged a transaction of
$10.5milion usd which is 100% risk free.All you have to do is to follow my
directives during the course of this transaction so that we can claim this
money as soon as you indicate your full interest to work with me.

Note:as an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money
because of the ethics governing the banking job.Therefore, i am compelled to
contact you since you are a foreigner for us to work together as prospective
friends and partners so that you can assist me provide a viable bank account
where this money can be transfered by my bank for us to SHARE.

I am prepared to give you 30% of the total sum at the end of this
transaction as soon as this money is in your possession.

Contact me urgently by email for more details and transfer procedure.

Please include your contact telephone number so that we can discuss briefly
if it interest you to work with me.

I am waiting to hear from you

Regards,

Evans Ofori

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